Gamestarter: Retrogaming add-ons (RPi/Generic)

Hi i have just installed gamestarter and there is no sound in emulation station and retroarch.

So heres the deal. I have a fresh install of libreelec 8.2.5 on my raspberry pi 3.

Setting it all up with me media etc then getting onto setting up gamestarter.

I installed emulationstation,retroarch then downloaded all lakka core package from the retroarch menu.

I then loaded retroarch configured my ps3 controllers to use wireless and back to kodi interface.

then launched emulation station and noticed no sound, i then launched a rom and also noticed no sound within game either.

So heres the strange part. i went exited retroarch and emulation station back to kodi, using my tv remote to navigate kodi i got gui sounds but using the ps3 controller to navigate gives me no gui sound, is the normal behaviour and also could anyone point me in the write direction so get the sound working.

Hi i have just installed gamestarter and there is no sound in emulation station and retroarch.

So heres the deal. I have a fresh install of libreelec 8.2.5 on my raspberry pi 3.

Setting it all up with me media etc then getting onto setting up gamestarter.

I installed emulationstation,retroarch then downloaded all lakka core package from the retroarch menu.

I then loaded retroarch configured my ps3 controllers to use wireless and back to kodi interface.

then launched emulation station and noticed no sound, i then launched a rom and also noticed no sound within game either.

So heres the strange part. i went exited retroarch and emulation station back to kodi, using my tv remote to navigate kodi i got gui sounds but using the ps3 controller to navigate gives me no gui sound, is the normal behaviour and also could anyone point me in the write direction so get the sound working.

Also ive noticed that the scraper doesnt work using emulation station.

Can anyone help me with that

Thanks

Rob

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I scraped all my games from Pc with sselph scraper and just mass edited xml with notepad so to use same thumbs with both advanced launcher and ES but that was about 2 years ago and I m not sure about details...the best script for me to scrape was Fastscraper..look for it on github and save script to .bat on your pc

I have my whole rom collection scraped and backed up on my computer from retropie.

now if i transfer that over to libreelec they do not shows but if i edit the gamlist.xml and alter the file location it works.

Surely i do not need to edit every single entry within that xml to match.

Thanks

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I'm not sure if game lists from retropie are compatable with libreelec...but if you edited file location and it's working you can just edit them all at once with Notepad++...

About if there is an easier way I m not sure...but fastscraper.bat is very easy....you just edit few lines in script for what kind of artwork you need...like 3d,covers,snapshots etc..it's also very fast to scrape..

It doesn't start if I run ./addon.sh from SSH (not that this is important)

I haven't yet tested functionality (mainly MAME) since I need to figure out how to organize the collection (it doesn't seem smart to put all roms in Emulators/roms on LE, due to different architectures.

How do others do this?

PS: As far as I can remember, OpenElec shared binaries with Ubuntu, but I don't remember which version. Maybe it's the same with LE, which will make it pretty easy to update the binaries.

EDIT:

This actually seems to be working, getting RA thru the official deb src, but it wants other libraries:

libQt5Core.so.5 => not found

libQt5Gui.so.5 => not found

libQt5Widgets.so.5 => not found

libQt5Network.so.5 => not found

libopenal.so.1 => not found

libjack.so.0 => not found

libwayland-egl.so.1 => not found

libwayland-client.so.0 => not found

libwayland-cursor.so.0 => not found

libXxf86vm.so.1 => not found

libXinerama.so.1 => not found

libSDL2-2.0.so.0 => not found

libXv.so.1 => not found

libCg.so => not found

libCgGL.so => not found

libv4l2.so.0 => not found

libavcodec-ffmpeg.so.56 => not found

libavformat-ffmpeg.so.56 => not found

libavutil-ffmpeg.so.54 => not found

libswscale-ffmpeg.so.3 => not found

libswresample-ffmpeg.so.1 => not found

If you wish, I could gather them and test further and then send them to you.

It doesn't start if I run ./addon.sh from SSH (not that this is important)

I haven't yet tested functionality (mainly MAME) since I need to figure out how to organize the collection (it doesn't seem smart to put all roms in Emulators/roms on LE, due to different architectures.

How do others do this?

PS: As far as I can remember, OpenElec shared binaries with Ubuntu, but I don't remember which version. Maybe it's the same with LE, which will make it pretty easy to update the binaries.

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To run it using SSH you should call addon.py or directly this command "sh ./addon.sh retroarch" (note that you need to specify name of the addon after file)

I personally have all my romset collections in an external HDD with my movie and music collections pluggedto my RPi just when I want to play sometihng, and I use AEL to launch them from kodi, but I think every user has each own way to short his/her collection

To run it using SSH you should call addon.py or directly this command "sh ./addon.sh retroarch" (note that you need to specify name of the addon after file)

I personally have all my romset collections in an external HDD with my movie and music collections pluggedto my RPi just when I want to play sometihng, and I use AEL to launch them from kodi, but I think every user has each own way to short his/her collection

OK, so there was an explanation.

Yeah, I used to use OpenElec where I had them split into subfolders under Emulators, I think I ran them from within RA.

OK, so I have compiled a set of extra libs that are required for 1.7.4 to run on LibreElec 8.90.005 (though only for Gen, since I don't currently have my Pi running).

1.7.4 requires 109 MB of libs to run. It works! - but there are some black squares on some menus where icons are supposed to be. I am not sure why this is; I just copied the binary and all the 85 required libs, so maybe I am missing something. (Edit: I have the original deb archives in tar format, there is an asset directory which is supposed to be in /usr/share/libretro)